Rail-chair



W. F. PARHAM.

RAIL CHAIR.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.2. 1921.

Patented Oct. 25, 1921.

gwvznto' o, fwrmm QNETEE STATES WILLIAM F. PARHAM, OF WEST ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA.

RAIL-CHAIR.

memes.

Specification of Letters Patent. Pa,t9i1ted ct. 25, 1921.

" 'Applicati'on filed August 2, 1921. Serial No. 489,236.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM F. PARHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at West Asheville, in the county of Buncom'be and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful Rail-Chair, of which the following is a specification.

The device forming the subject matter of this application is a rail chair, and the invention aims to provide novel means for holding the meeting ends of a pair of rails securely, the construction being such that the connecting bolts, spikes and the like will have an unusually secure hold. 7

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enchance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that, within the scope of what is claimed, changes in the precise embodiment of the invention shown can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 is an elevation showing one side of a device constructed in accordance with the invention; Fig. 2 is an elevation showing the opposite side of the device; Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

The numeral 1 denotes ties on which is placed a base plate 2 bent upon itself at 22 to form an overlying wing 3 in contact with the base plate, the wing being provided on its inner edge with an upstanding lip 4. The wing 3 and the base plate 2 are supplied with registering openings 5 adapted to receipt securing elements 6, such as spikes, engaging the ties 1. The base flanges of rails 7 rest on the plate 2, the meeting ends of the rails being denoted by the numeral 8. One edge of the base flange of each rail 7 abuts against the lip 4, as

shown in Fig. 3. A fish plate 9 engages thev web of the rails 7 and extends across the joint at 8 in the rails. The fish plate 9 has an outstanding upper flange 1O engaging the under surface of the balls of the rails 7. The fish plate 9 is provided with an outstanding lower flange 11 resting on the upper surface of the base flanges of the rails 7.

The outer edge of the flange 11 ordinarily engages the lip 4, as shown in Fig. 3. The device includes a cushion block 12 which may be made of wood. The cushion block is co-extensive in length with the fish plate 9 and the lip 4 and is disposed between the fish plate and the lip. The cushion block 12 extends between the upper flange 10' of the fish plate 9 and the lower flange 11 thereof.

The chair embodies a fish plate 14 which is loop-shaped in cross section, as shown in Fig. 3, the fish plate having superposed flanges 15 which rest on the base flange of each rail 7. A cushion strip 16, made of wood if desired, is located within the loopshaped plate 14. The base plate 2 has openings 17 adapted to receive securing elements 18, such as spikes, the spikes entering the ties 1. The heads of the spikes bear upon the uppermost flange 15 of the fish plate 14. Connecting devices 19, such as bolts, pass through both walls of the fish plate 14, through the cushion strip 16, through the web of each rail 7, through the fish plate 9, through the cushion block 12 and through the lip 4. Owing to the presence of the cushion strip 16 and the cushion block 12, the nuts on the bolts 19 will remain tight and in place, the fish plate 14 being sufliciently compressible, and the lip 4 being sufiiciently bendable, so that the members 16 and 12 may exercise their functions. The overlying wing 3 reinforces the base plate 2 to receive the head of the spikes 6, and the same observation holds true so far as the relation of the spike 18 to the fish plate 14 is concerned. Further, since the flanges 15 are provided, the spike holds the fish plate 14 in the position shown in Fig. 3, the cushion strip 16 thus being retained within the fish plate.

What is claimed is 1. In a device of the class described, a loop-shaped fish plate having superposed flanges; a cushion strip within the fish plate; and a tie-engaging securing element bearing on one of the flanges.

2. In a device of the class described, a base plate bent upon itself to form an overlying wing having an upstanding lip; a fish plate having outstanding upper and lower flanges, a block interposed between the fish plate and the lip and disposed between the upper and lower flanges; a tieengaging securing element passing through first specified fish plate, the block, and the 10 the Wing and the base plate; a loop-shaped lip. V fish plate having superposed flanges; a In testimony that I claim the foregoing cushion strip disposed Within the fish plate; as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signaa tie-engaging securing element passing ture in the presence of tWo Witnesses. through the base plate and engaging one of WILLIAM F. PARHAM. the superposed flanges; and a rail-engag- Witnesses:

' ing connecting device passing through the GEO. DIGGES, J12,

1oop-shaped fish plate, the cushion strip, the Mrs. J. CROWELL. 

